Word: fervid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haters delight in announcing that a Siamese will not faithfully drool in your lap for a kind word like a Labrador retriever. Even the most fervid owners of felines can be surprised-almost to cardiac arrest-by their pets' peculiarities. Your cat lurks in the dark attic just when you thought you were alone. As a form of endearment, he may jump on your shoulder from the top of the refrigerator. He may refuse all food until you cook the same kind of bacon-and-cheese sandwich he enjoyed a week ago. He will, in the meantime, deposit...
...must carry both stories and the audience with him; he must lay the tracks that lead Charles and Mike to their fateful folly. Says Karel Reisz: "Jeremy has the authority of a leading man without the narcissism that so often goes with it." Indeed, there is something of the fervid adolescent in his playing of these serious young men. It takes doomed love to test, toughen and mature Charles-and a compelling actor-personality to play him. Irons is equally persuasive as performer and fond lover. As Reisz notes, "Jeremy does have his Heathcliff side...
Reagan's appointments should not be viewed as conciliatory or moderate. They represent the worst of America, just as bad as the fervid evangelicals of the Moral Majority. The eight men Reagan has named to be his close advisers are archetypes of the U.S. corporate elite, interested in serving the desires of almost none of this country's or the world's people, interested instead in further increasing corporate control of everyday life. Reagan would have been hard-pressed to do worse...
Looking more intense than usual, Carter attempted to be combative without totally bringing it off. He managed to defend his record, set up Reagan as a target and project a slightly beclouded vision of the future. But he was unable to generate fervid excitement even among his ardent supporters. As frequently happens to the President, his delivery lessened the impact of his speech; it read better than he read it. Unfortunately, the line that may be longest remembered was a slip of the tongue. Citing some of his party's illustrious members of the past, he named "Hubert Horatio...
...member of the acting profession," Bacall continued, "and if Ronald Reagan is no better at being President than he was at acting ... Well, as a producer I know says, 'No, no! Jimmy Stewart for President. Ronald Reagan for Vice President!' " Kennedy then stepped out and admonished his fervid supporter: "Betty, I just wish you wouldn't be so mealymouthed about coming out and saying what you think...